childhood & philosophy  

walter omar kohan,david knowles kennedy

Childhood and philosophy is a journal which has been waiting to be born at least since Socrates sat down in the unique (at least for us) shelter of the 5th century bc polis and founded a discipline. The journal’s conception lies much, much later, in the f... see more

darren chetty

Whilst continuing racism is often invoked as evidence of the urgent need for Philosophy forChildren, there is little in the current literature that addresses the topic. Drawing on CriticalRace Theory (CRT) and the related field of Critical Whiteness Studi... see more

claire cassidy,donald christie

The context for the study is the current curriculum reform in Scotland (Curriculum for Excellence) which demands that teachers enable children to become ‘Responsible Citizens’. The aim of the study was to evaluate the use of Community of Philosophical In... see more

anne-claude hess

To develop children’s critical thinking to make them able to think autonomously, here is the goal many educational actors try to reach. This finality can be reached using appropriate methods. Practicing Philosophy for Children is as such a favoured method... see more

jean-françois goubet

In a recent work, Not for Profit, Martha C. Nussbaum stood for the Philosophy for Children (P4C) movement. In fact, this mention is not isolated, for many exchanges took place between Nussbaum and Matthew Lipman. I don’t focus on quotations from the one b... see more

anastasia de vita

This article regards a particular way through which adults take children into consideration and listen their voices. Reflections have sprung from a research context, focused on existential questions that children pose during their preschool years in early... see more

rita ribes pereira

The present text has as a main goal to discuss the relations between childhood and contemporary culture. More so, that the social space the children occupy in the cyberculture became a very contradictory one: for in one hand we see such children with a na... see more

tatielle rita souza da silva

This article's research object is the relationship between literature and education. Our position of teacher-researcher is one that authorizes us to collect testimonies of the teaching experience, as well as extract interrogative elements from all of the ... see more

david sumiacher

The following article presents two general issues. The first is related with some anchor points regarding philosophical practice as a professional field. In this sense I’ll seek three criteria for distinguishing philosophical practices regarding what prac... see more

walter omar kohan,david knowles kennedy

This conversation offers a discussion of the meaning, sense and social function of school, both as an institution and as a time-space for the practice of schole (free-time, leisure). It also discusses the different types of Greek time (aion, kairos, khron... see more

maria teresa b. c. s. g. dos santos

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